tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post3628622551821626097..comments2018-03-06T11:31:03.297-08:00Comments on NICK'S CATHOLIC BLOG: Pope Francis and the end of CatholicismNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453168437883536663noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-62654035892730780942014-05-18T23:45:17.528-07:002014-05-18T23:45:17.528-07:00Hi cwdlaw223
Since you talk about salvation then ...Hi cwdlaw223<br /><br />Since you talk about salvation then I wonder if you can offer your good assistance in answering these following questions of mine:<br /><br />1. Luke 23:42-43; so based on what ground the man, who said; “…Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom, been saved?<br /><br />2. James 2:34 “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.” Can you explain what work did James refer? Is Love and Work are different things?<br /><br />3. The doctrine of justification by faith alone was the teaching of the scripture Martin Luther claimed. But if that’s true or not, as was to believe to be the teaching of the scripture, what makes him claimed that faith alone justified against the RCC? In other words, what happened in the Roman Catholic Church that caused him to teach the doctrine of justification by faith alone?<br /><br />4. Lastly, does Christ provide a place for believers in heaven according to the weight of their work while on earth? In other words, does a believer who does more works on earth will live a better life and place in heaven than the one who does less work?<br /><br />God blessMunchyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864028976247159470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-75555794311191362522013-10-17T04:43:24.325-07:002013-10-17T04:43:24.325-07:00I see we have some more &quot;salvation recipe&quo...I see we have some more &quot;salvation recipe&quot; Protestants on this site. In order to properly partake in the Mass you must have repented for your sins. Baptism is the method to &quot;wash away&quot; your sins and you are commanded to have faith that the grace infused in you will help you live a Christian life. Salvation isn&#39;t some recipe or event, it&#39;s a journey and it starts with baptism, is perpetuated by the sacraments and one must persevere until the end.cwdlaw223https://www.blogger.com/profile/02451813257438815066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-21864861372000510712013-10-17T04:30:54.540-07:002013-10-17T04:30:54.540-07:00Nick - Pope Francis is trying to bridge secular cu...Nick - Pope Francis is trying to bridge secular culture with the Church and his attempts will fail. It&#39;s impossible to bridge such worldviews except in Protestantism where you can change the meaning if words in your head. He&#39;s playing a dangerous game and I am deeply disappointed by his attempts. If Obama likes him then you know he&#39;s not doing his job correctly.cwdlaw223https://www.blogger.com/profile/02451813257438815066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-84993328045101002992013-10-17T04:27:27.552-07:002013-10-17T04:27:27.552-07:00John 6:56. There&#39;s a reason followers left Je...John 6:56. There&#39;s a reason followers left Jesus over this hard saying because it was hard to believe. cwdlaw223https://www.blogger.com/profile/02451813257438815066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-13258149101930502862013-10-16T22:20:06.627-07:002013-10-16T22:20:06.627-07:00Anonymous, Where in the supper accounts does it sa...Anonymous, Where in the supper accounts does it say anything about eternal life? Where in them did Jesus say that by eating the bread and drinking the wine gains someone forgiveness of sin and eternal life? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-63734641142567553042013-10-16T20:00:41.467-07:002013-10-16T20:00:41.467-07:00Francis has not not said or done anything heretica...Francis has not not said or done anything heretical, you say? I&#39;m afraid you are wrong. He is not only a heretic but an apostate.<br /><br />&quot;Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense.&quot; - Tantamount to a denial of the great commission and the denial of the need to accept the Catholic faith for salvation.<br /><br />&quot;Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.&quot; - Moral relativism, religious indifferentism, denial of the one true faith.<br /><br />&quot;there is no Catholic God&quot; - With this comment Francis became an apostate and a non-Catholic.<br /><br />Not to mention the fact that he participates in the rites of the Jewish religion and believes atheists can be saved if they only follow their consciense. The man has absolutely nothing to do with Catholicism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-6706494863916379922013-10-16T19:36:44.839-07:002013-10-16T19:36:44.839-07:00Nick - you need an article about metaphysical natu...Nick - you need an article about metaphysical nature of Christianity. Most Ps have no idea that Christianity is metaphysical in nature so logical arguments are often wasted/lost upon them. Modern man doesn&#39;t believe in miracles and thinks his brain is more powerful than those superstitious early Christians. Pism is scholasticism because man thinks he can figure everything out from scripture yet he fails to comprehend the supernatural/metaphysical aspect of life itself that I overarches and pours through Christianity and Christ&#39;s physical church he left us on this planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-70970848313039735092013-10-16T19:28:42.622-07:002013-10-16T19:28:42.622-07:00Early Christians were mass consuming, sacerdotal b...Early Christians were mass consuming, sacerdotal based believers. Not some scholastics who think they can figure out Christianity through better exegesis if scripture given to them through the own church they reject and replace with themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-63354835547880214582013-10-16T19:26:39.380-07:002013-10-16T19:26:39.380-07:00You also fail to realize that the scripture you us...You also fail to realize that the scripture you use for your position was preserved as what was being taught instead of some recipe for salvation. Plus, the books of the NT were chosen by their use during the Mass. If you ignore history and tradition you can create thousands of new forms of Christianity. <br /><br />History lacks any proto-Protestants because the Protestants reject the hard sayings of Christ and his commandant about the Mass. Drink his blood? Eat his flesh? That&#39;s disgusting unless you have faith infused in you by grace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-35878474959886580012013-10-16T19:20:47.972-07:002013-10-16T19:20:47.972-07:00Christ himself said that is what it takes for salv...Christ himself said that is what it takes for salvation. Let me guess, he was joking around when he said this and man was wrong for 1,600 years. Man cannot be saved without the grace of God. God gives us his grace IN AND THROUGH THE MASS. Grace is infused, not imputed. Christianity is sacerdotal and not the individual priesthood of each believer however screwed up their interpretation if scripture or history is for their own sinful purposes. Either have the guts to say Christ failed or don&#39;t call yourself a Christian. History is Catholicism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-7671907563731315512013-10-16T15:42:21.837-07:002013-10-16T15:42:21.837-07:00The mass does not offer salvation. No one going to...The mass does not offer salvation. No one going to a mass will be saved by the mass. Thea apostles did not preach the mass as a means of salvation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-53783399622150003782013-10-16T11:49:48.147-07:002013-10-16T11:49:48.147-07:00There is simply no historical evidence of early Ch...There is simply no historical evidence of early Christians believing anything close to: sola scriptura, sola fide, justification by faith alone, believer&#39;s baptism, the Mass is a spiritual feast or recognition ceremony. <br /><br />Early Christians worshipped Christ as he instructed them to worship and it was centered around the Mass. Christianity is and was sacerdotal. Protestants should be ashamed to not have the guts to claim that Christ failed if Catholicism, and its sacerdotal form of worship, is so wrong. If Christ failed then he is a liar and not God. Making up facts to justify another man made religion (off the back of Catholicism for that matter) is ridiculous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-86575035457857770732013-10-16T10:47:05.360-07:002013-10-16T10:47:05.360-07:00They turned to the Mass as instructed by Christ fo...They turned to the Mass as instructed by Christ for salvation. Let me guess, that deceives people and/or is hocus/pocus even though the liturgy of the Mass preceded a fair amount of the NT before it was written. Christianity didn&#39;t occur after the printing press was invented.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-34772798769882987492013-10-13T14:30:16.108-07:002013-10-13T14:30:16.108-07:00What did the apostle use to turn the world upside ...What did the apostle use to turn the world upside down? It was not the rosary or some kind of &quot;Miraculous Medal&quot;. <br />That kind of stuff deceives people even more. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-87778432391310871432013-10-13T13:30:15.812-07:002013-10-13T13:30:15.812-07:00You probably don&#39;t have any experience with re...You probably don&#39;t have any experience with real life evangelization. I&#39;ve tried all kinds of angles, and the fact is most people either don&#39;t care about &#39;logical arguments&#39; or even more likely, most people are closed off spiritually because of sin. Only grace can break through, and indeed that&#39;s what conversion is, not a work of man, but the Holy Spirit. Telling someone they&#39;re a sinner, opening up and quoting the Bible to someone who doesn&#39;t know what the Bible is, stuff like that has minimal impact on the typical worldly person. <br /><br />The Rosary and Miraculous Medal are only a problem if you&#39;re a Protestant who has been preconditioned to &#39;fear&#39; these things.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453168437883536663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-89642793868794270592013-10-13T08:19:25.782-07:002013-10-13T08:19:25.782-07:00Nick,
You can&#39;t be serious that &quot;giving ...Nick,<br /> You can&#39;t be serious that &quot;giving a person a Miraculous Medal and praying the Rosary for conversions.&quot; <br /><br />This is not the gospel but superstitions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-75463294965813575042013-10-12T21:49:41.408-07:002013-10-12T21:49:41.408-07:00At this point, it&#39;s all business as usual. Fro...At this point, it&#39;s all business as usual. From the outside looking in.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453168437883536663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-58323996837367638792013-10-12T20:59:45.589-07:002013-10-12T20:59:45.589-07:00Nick said:
And to top that all off, the sex abuse...<b>Nick said:<br /><br />And to top that all off, the sex abuse crisis and more especially the disobedience among Catholics has to all be healed before the world will take us credibly. There needs to be serious house-cleaning or else we&#39;re the bigger hypocrites.</b><br /><br />Has Pope Francis done anything to further &quot;house-cleaning.&quot; It seems like business as usual at the Vatican.Anti-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-7982139938904255922013-10-12T20:57:43.615-07:002013-10-12T20:57:43.615-07:00Anonymous said:
Actually what the pope said is pro...<b>Anonymous said:<br />Actually what the pope said is problematic. Here is what the Scripture says about the atheist:<br />&quot;The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” Ps 14:1</b><br /><br />Do you believe that atheists are not converted to Christianity. If that is the case, then Christians are born Christians. Is this what you believe? That&#39;s a belief system known as PELAGIANISM.Anti-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-5117967258209641222013-10-12T17:40:31.347-07:002013-10-12T17:40:31.347-07:00I&#39;d love it if the Pope came out hard against ...I&#39;d love it if the Pope came out hard against major sins of our time, but the impression I get from his interviews is that preaching about sin isn&#39;t very effective in the world we live in. Not because of political correctness, but simply because people have been trained by the culture to live according to the Enlightenment dogma of &quot;As long as you&#39;re not hurting anyone, anything goes.&quot; And to make matters worse, our culture has been trained to tune-out any sort of Fundamentalist Protestant type rants, so the Pope saying &quot;Repent you sinner&quot; is less than effective. <br /><br />The best &quot;bet&quot; to save these people is to preach the Gospel and not really about the moral issues. As noted earlier, preaching only on morals has caused us to forget the Gospel, which is really what saves. To me, I&#39;m much more confident giving a person a Miraculous Medal and praying the Rosary for conversions. <br /><br />As that begins to sink in, then there&#39;s room to connect the dots, showing why certain sins of our time are so bad and should be stopped. Because if all people hear is &quot;don&#39;t do this&quot; without a solid reason why not, then why should they listen? That&#39;s why, ironically, many modern day sins are being opposed in terms of the &quot;scientifically confirmed&quot; harmfulness to one&#39;s physical health, such as how abortion increases the risk of cancer, the pill can lead to infertility, etc, etc. <br /><br />And to top that all off, the sex abuse crisis and more especially the disobedience among Catholics has to all be healed before the world will take us credibly. There needs to be serious house-cleaning or else we&#39;re the bigger hypocrites. Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453168437883536663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-191660777297540532013-10-12T11:32:15.525-07:002013-10-12T11:32:15.525-07:00Anti,
Actually what the pope said is problematic....Anti,<br /> Actually what the pope said is problematic. Here is what the Scripture says about the atheist:<br />&quot;The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” Ps 14:1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-27087069879683518642013-10-11T23:26:51.377-07:002013-10-11T23:26:51.377-07:00 Hi All, There is no need for worry. Even if the ... Hi All, There is no need for worry. Even if the concerns of Anonymous were real, we have historical precedent of the Church surviving popes who did not teach or proclaim the faith clearly. The Honorius case for example. Or the one in which a pope denied the just dead immediately experience the Beatific Vision. But, as Nick has pointed out, this pope has not said anything of that nature.<br />Jim in Lisbonguy fawkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14111037364653005571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-32683844593842328742013-10-11T21:29:32.208-07:002013-10-11T21:29:32.208-07:00[b]Matt 7:7-8 is not for unbelievers. Unbelievers ...[b]Matt 7:7-8 is not for unbelievers. Unbelievers do not pray to God because they don&#39;t believe in God.[/b]<br /><br />Then Francis&#39; words don&#39;t apply to them, because his words were directed to those who &quot;go to [God] with a sincere and repentant heart.&quot; Your posts here are more problematic that anything the pope said, suggesting that a mere belief is sufficient for salvation apart from conversion.Anti-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-10315595391909977562013-10-11T07:52:20.948-07:002013-10-11T07:52:20.948-07:00Matt 7:7-8 is not for unbelievers. Unbelievers do ...Matt 7:7-8 is not for unbelievers. Unbelievers do not pray to God because they don&#39;t believe in God. <br /><br />Acts 3:19 is about having faith in Christ. The unbeliever does not believe in Him.<br /><br />This is why what Francis said to the atheist is antithetical to the gospel. What he said was heretical. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-53528650082823836962013-10-11T01:48:08.446-07:002013-10-11T01:48:08.446-07:00What did Lord Jesus and his Holy Apostles teach? L...What did Lord Jesus and his Holy Apostles teach? Lord Jesus says in his sermon on the mount, &quot;Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened&quot; (Matthew 7:7-8). Sounds kind of like what Francis said... The Most Holy Apostle Peter says in Acts, &quot;Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out&quot; (Acts 3:19). That also sounds kind of like what Francis said... Hmm....Anti-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com